

Removing a header or footer for any page other than your first page requires a bit more work.
#HOW TO DELETE A HEADER IN WORD 2016 HOW TO#
How to Delete a Header or Footer on Other Pages in Your Word Document You can type different information there if you want, or you can just leave it blank. This action removes the header and footer from the first page. On the Design tab of that section, select the “Different First Page” check box. This also activates the Header & Footer Tools section on Word’s Ribbon. Here’s how to remove it.ĭouble click the header or footer area to make it active. Usually, that’s because it’s a title page. Very often, you won’t want your header or footer to show up on the first page of your document. If you are working on a document using the older DOC file format or you are working in compatibility mode, then alignment tabs have no efficacy-they are treated as regular tabs.How to Delete a Header or Footer on the First Page of Your Document Since alignment tabs were introduced in Word 2007, they are only viable in documents saved in the DOCX or DOCM formats (or templates saved in the newer file format). If the symbol for the tab character (the arrow) is, instead, simply selected, then that is an alignment tab. If the tab disappears, then it was a regular tab. Position the insertion point just to the left of the tab character and press the Delete key. If you need (for some reason) to determine whether a tab character is a normal tab or an alignment tab, one way to do so is to try deleting it. I noted that if you have non-printing characters visible then alignment tabs look like regular tabs. This means that if you later make a formatting change that adjusts those margins (such as Patsy did), change paper size, or even change from portrait to landscape orientation, the alignment tabs adjust the information that follows them relative to the margin change. Regular tabs are set at a particular distance from the left margin, while alignment tabs are set at a relative position (left, center, or right) to both margins. While alignment tabs, in this respect, look like regular tabs, they are very different. If you have non-printing characters visible on your screen, you'll notice that Word displays the alignment tab using the familiar arrow character it normally uses for tabs. Close the header or footer area by clicking in the main document.


